George W. Bush Presidential Center dedication
The 226,000-square-foot center, home to the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum along with the 43rd president's policy institute, is not far from the Bushes' Dallas home. Former first lady Laura Bush wanted to make sure that the George W. Bush Presidential Center reflected her and her husband's Texas roots. And it does, right down to the foundation that includes limestone from the Midland area where they lived when they were first married.
The Bush library, with more than 70 million pages of paper records, 43,000 artifacts, 200 million emails and four million digital photographs, is the 13th presidential library in the National Archives and Records Administration system.
The library opens to the public on May 1, 2013.